Linksys WMP54G (802.11g wireless pci card) issues

flyriceflyrice
edited February 2010 in Science & Tech
OK, for some odd reason my network went down. Don't know why. Happened while I was away at work.

So I come home and my brother tells me that the network went down, so I reconfigured the router and decided to go from a 64-bit WEP to 128-bit with 26 hexadecimal keys.

Now I had to get to the task of reconfiguring all the other computers in the house that have a wireless card.

Brother's computer: right clicked on properties on his wireless connection icon in the systray, punched in the new hexadecimal key, bam, he's back (albeit he stole my ipaddress somehow but oh well, ip done automatically by the DHCP). He's using a Linksys WUSB54G (USB wireless adapter)

Dad's computer: same as above, he also got a new ip address configured by the DHCP. (Motorola PCI wireless 802.11g card, unsure of model).

Family computer: WTF. I put in a new code and NOTHING. Nada. I put in a key different from the others and nothing. The ip address is not configured by the DHCP (router) so it can't receive any signals. (this one has the Linksys WMP54G card in subject line).

I noticed that my brother and my dad's windows wireless networking asked for the key and asked you to repeat it. The family one doesn't...why? And WTF could be wrong? Am I missing some sort of protocol?

I already tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers on the WMP54G and that hasn't helped.

Comments

  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    Do all the computers have XP SP2?
  • flyriceflyrice
    edited April 2005
    No, the family PC (the one in question) is on the original XP.

    Crud, how am I going to update the thing w/out internet access?
  • xEz3kielxEz3kiel
    edited April 2005
    If that is the problem you could download the IT version of SP2 and burn it then throw it on your family computer.... :)
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    Go to the device manager, right click on the card, go to the advanced properties and tell me if "Bluetooth collaboration" is enabled.
  • flyriceflyrice
    edited April 2005
    That option doesn't appear at all under the advanced properties.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    Burn SP2 onto a CD, and install SP2 on that computer, first.
  • flyriceflyrice
    edited April 2005
    primesuspect wrote:
    Burn SP2 onto a CD, and install SP2 on that computer, first.
    OK, done.

    Still nothing. The status showed it's not connected, but the option to CONNECT has been replaced by DISCONNECT.

    EDIT: Actually, now it's saying acquiring network address (and has been for some time too).
  • maxanonmaxanon Montreal
    edited April 2005
    Now you need to disconnect and then go to the properties of the connection and enter that long WEP key. You may have the reboot the router (ap) as well.
  • RADARADA Apple Valley, CA Member
    edited April 2005
    flyrice wrote:
    OK, done.

    Still nothing. The status showed it's not connected, but the option to CONNECT has been replaced by DISCONNECT.

    EDIT: Actually, now it's saying acquiring network address (and has been for some time too).

    Fly, try this website, lots of good Linksys equipment info

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  • flyriceflyrice
    edited April 2005
    OK, for those of you keeping up with this story (zero), I think I've found a solution.

    Apparantly, my network does not like 128-bit WEP. So I switched back to 64-bit WEP and things are working fine.

    I don't know the exact reason, but things are back up and working so I'm not going to complain. The only thing I can think of is that the Linksys NIC may not be able to handle 128-bit WEP for whatever reason. Highly unlikely.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    Mine works on 128.
  • HitsFromDaBongHitsFromDaBong
    edited February 2010
    Hey Guys,

    i'm also trying to get the WMP54G V4.1 to run on 7 Ulitmate 64-bit. Actually it's a bit strange here since the ralink drivers (RT61 Wireless Card V2) DID work in matters of getting the device started. but even after rebooting multiple times, it will still NOT let me establish any connection. says there are no connections available, when i let the windows networks diagnosis thingy run, it tells me there are problems with the installed driver for the wireless adapter, although according to the devices manager, the device works perfectly! i'm REALLY confused here. any suggestions on how to fix this ? and maybe worth mentioning, it was a TOTALLY fresh installation of 7, so there were no other drivers involved before!
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